Gizznitt Malikite
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
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Posted - 2012.06.07 17:22:00 -
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Jonas Altol wrote:mxzf wrote:The third option is having the alt create a courier contract to get the stuff to your main. But that has a world of problems, especially if I want to ferry goods:
- The courier that accepts the contract can steal my goods, so I have to set up collateral to be at least my final sell price, discouraging most couriers in the process (because they will have to put up a lot of dough for very little gain).
- The courier will know what is inside the crate and where it's going, making my trade item and route visible to himself and others.
That doesn't sound like a good marketing opportunity, unless I am missing something.
1.) I'm pretty sure you can hide the items within a courier contract. Put all your items in a can, and then courier contract the can. This is called double wrapping, and cargo scanners cannot see through both layers of packaging (they only see one layer deep). I don't recall if items are listed in the courier contract itself... as I don't run them very often.
2.) Red Frog and Black Frog pilots are used to putting up to 1 billion isk in collateral per contract... it's pretty standard. If you're shipping more than that, I recommend you split your items into mulitple courier contracts.
3.) There are TONS of uses for an alt on the same account. While not as versatile as a second account, having an alt on your main account allows you to perhaps mission run on one when things are slow in your main's area of operation. It allows you to earn extra income using fully passive means like RP farming, or what I call "part-time jobs" like PI, Manufacturing, POS Reactions, Copy/Research stuff, and trade... It's also fairly common to buy a character off there character bazaar, and transfer them to one of your "alt" slots... Characters cost several billion, but you can get a lot of bang for your buck!!
4.) CCP used to allow training on all characters on the account simultaneously. This was before my time, but to my understanding it caused a lot of problems with RMT, character farming, and other issues. This is why we don't have it today. Besides, if they brought it back, it would destroy the character bazaar almost overnight!!! |